Women

See also Eco-Feminism, Population, and Development. See also Men

Articles and Reports

Native people resist Dakota Access pipeline 9/16. Reporters arrested; military tactics deployed images,women leaders 10/16.

Iceland's Upstart Pirate Party makes waves in election ally of Green, while the election didn't bring a Pirate revolution, it did see the emergence of new parties, a decline in support for traditional ones, and a record number of seats for women — 30 out of 63. Crowdsouncing its constitution. 10/16

5 Rare Foods Protected by Women's Groups Around the World

Why Women-Led Businesses Outperform Their Peers.

Climate change and women 8/14. See Global Warming.

This Women's Collective Is Using Agroecology to Fight India's Green Revolution 10/15.

Female 'A+' Students End Up Making As Much As Male 'C' Students 5/14.

Sexual assault and harassment in fields. Also military. 12/13.

Can You Guess the 10 Best Countries For Women? Hint: the U.S. Isn't One of Them 10/13.

Swedish co-op creates a stake for women in wind industry. Qvinnovindar members individually invested anywhere from 500 to 300,000 Krona ($77-46,000) each, giving them an equal vote in how the company is run, regardless of the amount they put in. Members come from diverse lines of work: a farmer, a florist, a dentist, a bookkeeper, a consultant, and a retail clerk, among other professions. Initially, the women were mocked by other project investors as “the sewing circle” or “Tupperware party,” as if buying wind turbines was merely an excuse to socialize. It caused a minor stir in town when they ran a newspaper ad before their second project soliciting new investor members, but women only. “That was a bit controversial,” says Wanja’s daughter, Sara Wallemyr, who fielded some calls from men who wanted to know why they couldn’t join. “I told them I could help them create a co-operative for men. That is not a problem,” says Sara Wallemyr, who now works in sales for Eolus Vind. 10/13.

Facebook’s former employee, Katherine Losse The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, reveals how Facebook as a company was highly sexist.

One Billion Rising: The Biggest Mass Global Action To End Violence Against Women & Girls In The History Of Humankind 2/13.

Smash patriarchy, save the planet interview with Ensler.

Ruth Rosen, Feminism's Long March

Francis Lappe sees the end of hunger in Indian women's group 12/12

"The Women Who Were Right About the Economy" aka Great Recession 1/13. Feminists like Susan Feiner have talked about neoclassical economics as a project that shores up a male-dominated society (and one that is also dominated by a particular class and race). The math/prediction fetish is very handy for this project because it allows economists to construct models in a way that tends to rationalize inequalities. Another way economists tend to justify inequalities is to rely on what are called “hierarchical dualisms.” Throughout Western history, people have tended to present men as rational beings and women as irrational. It’s the old mind/matter division, in which man is associated with the mind and woman is linked to matter (which comes from the Latin word mater, meaning “mother”), or nature. You can see this gender bias playing out in all kinds of oppositional parings: the immortal soul (male) v. the body (female). Order (male) v. chaos (female). These dualisms are written into our language, our art, even our sciences.More.

Working Women's Bodies Besieged by Environmental Injustice 6.12

Towards an Environment of (Gender) Balance 6.12

Gender Inequality and economic development from Oxfam.

Narrow the Gap seeks to address the above.

Gender aspect of climate change.

Interactive

Women Empowered from WiserEarth

The National Women's Hall of Fame is an American institution created in 1969 by a group of people in Seneca Falls, New York, the location of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention.

Images

Half the Sky video game.

Five Most Dangerous Countries

Video

Food Fights for the 21st Century: Women's Voices Driving Change panel with Deborah Koons Garcia, Filmmaker, Director, Symphony of the Soil and The Future of Food (06/24/2014). See Food.

TEDtalks countdown to the best of the year includes great talk by Naomi Klein on "Why We Are Addicted to Risk?" (includes the underlying myths that drive environmental and economic problems, in opposition to the Precautionary Principle). See also TEDWomen.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Sheryl WuDunn makes a convincing case for the idea that gender inequality is the greatest moral challenge of the 21st century TEDtalk video.

Women entrepreneurs, example not exception TEDtalk video.

In 2011 three young women swept the top prizes of the first Google Science Fair. At TEDxWomen Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose and Naomi Shah described their extraordinary projects-- and their route to a passion for science.

Gloria Steinem on deep ecology.

Women Reshaping the World and Celebrating Tedwomen at TED conference.

Inspired by Aung San Suu Kyi’s call to action, “If you’re feeling helpless, help someone,” Morley composed this song. TEDtalk video.

Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates. Do these trends, both US-centric and global, signal the "end of men"? Probably not -- but they point toward an important societal shift worth deep discussion. (TEDtalk video).

Halla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash.

Suffragette retrospective with Bread and Roses music.

Susan Faludi's, "The Terror Dream". "In this, the most original examination of post-9/11 America, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her laser-sharp observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why, she asks, did an assault on American global dominance provoke an almost hysterical summons to restore "traditional" manhood, marriage, and maternity? (Google talk video).

Books

Silvia Federici's best known work, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, expands on the work of Leopoldina Fortunati. In it, she argues against Karl Marx's claim that primitive accumulation is a necessary precursor for capitalism. Instead, she posits that primitive accumulation is a fundamental characteristic of capitalism itself—that capitalism, in order to perpetuate itself, requires a constant infusion of expropriated capital.

Hanna Rosin's book, "The End of Men and the Rise of Women." (audio interview).

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Sheryl WuDunn makes a convincing case for the idea that gender inequality is the greatest moral challenge of the 21st century TEDtalk video.

Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin Derek Jensen says "This extraordinary and extraordinarily beautiful book is one of the most important books I've ever read. Using the words of scientific philosophers themselves (but putting them into a beautifully-written, poetic context) Susan Griffin brilliantly shows how the logic of science is fundamentally anti-life, and anti-woman. She juxtaposes this to some of the most wonderful embodied prose you could ever hope to read, and moves the reader from this alienated state of modern civilized people and back into our bodies. Words cannot do this book justice."

Riane Eisler: The Chalice and the Blade (1987). Eisler relates how critical the roles of cooperation and sexual equality have been in the evolution of human culture -- not only to correct the idea that might-makes-right makes history, but also to point out the direction humankind might follow from here. Susan Griffin: Woman and Nature (1978). A powerful exposition of how women and the natural world have been seen as versions of each other -- and violated in strangely similar ways.

A Tradition That Has No Name: Nurturing the Development of People, Families, and Communities Mary Field Belenky (Author), Lynne A. Bond (Author), Jacqueline S. Weinstock.hoping to carry Belenky’s theoretical work in the bestselling [Women’s Ways of Knowing into the realm of everyday life, created the Listening Partners project, designed to help young women isolated in rural poverty give voice to their personal and communal needs and come together to create social change.

Florence Williams is author of the new book Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, important because they concentrate and pass on toxins. text interview 6/12 audio interview.

Women in Green sustainable design.

Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers... by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie.

Age of Sex Crime by Jane Caputi" The sexualized serial murder of women by men is the subject of this provocative book. Jane Caputi argues that the sensationalized murders by men such as Jack the Ripper, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and the Yorkshire Ripper represent a contemporary genre of sexually political crimes. The awful deeds function as a form of patriarchal terrorism, “disappearing” women at a rate of some four thousand annually in the United States alone. Caputi asks us not only to name the phenomenon of sexually political murder, but to recognize sex crime in all of its various interconnecting manifestations."(DJ) See also serial killings of young women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (video documentary).

Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart by Nina Simons, fwd by Terry Tempest Williams. 2012

Audio

Hanna Rosin's book, "The End of Men and the Rise of Women." (links and interview).

Trekking with the Queen of Bhutan, a country which measures progress not by GDP but happiness and well-being of its people. From The Kitchen Sisters' (Slugs!) Hidden World of Girls.

Environmental health advocate Charlotte Brody suggests that female scientists, with a different way of seeing problems and solutions, may lead us toward a new and healthy approach to the connections between human health and the health of the planet. Bioneers